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Motier Ventures unveils La Maison, a community space for the French tech ecosystem

On Tuesday evening local time, Motier Ventures, an early stage tech investment firm based in Paris, unveiled a startup hub called La Maison. This relatively new investor in the French tech ecosystem is the family office of the Houzé family … Continue reading

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Peak XV trims fund size and fees as Indian market overheats

Peak XV, the largest India and Southeast Asia-focused venture firm, is reducing the size of some of its funds and lowering fees as it seeks to become “deeply aligned” with its limited partners. The firm, which raised $2.85 billion funds … Continue reading

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Bitcoin tumbles back to the $60,000 level as tensions in the Middle East heighten

Cryptocurrencies slid on Tuesday night, with bitcoin dropping back to $60,000. The crypto has had a shaky start to what is usually one of its strongest months.

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Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a ‘warrior class’ excited to enact ‘violence on others in pursuit of good aims’

Palmer Luckey raged against America’s adversaries, endorsed completely autonomous weapons, and hinted at an Anduril IPO.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Impulse bets shuttling satellites between orbits is big business, and raises $150M to scale up

Impulse Space has raised a massive new tranche of funding as big-name investors bet that moving satellites around in orbit will soon be a high demand service.  The startup, which was founded by Tom Mueller three years ago, announced the … Continue reading

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A hidden microphone on a San Francisco street pole is spotting ‘bops’ in the wild

In San Francisco’s Mission district, good music is all around you. That’s why, high up on a street pole at an undisclosed location in the Mission, Riley Walz installed a solar-powered box containing an old Android phone running the song … Continue reading

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What Is Inside Microsoft’s Major Windows 11 Update?

Version 24H2 adds the sudo command and alerts users when an application accesses their physical location. Microsoft polished other security features, too.

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Threads users can now see who follows them from other fediverse servers

Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, can now see who follows them and likes their posts from other fediverse servers, such as … Continue reading

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Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he’ll be joining Anthropic. In a series of posts on X, Kingma revealed that he’ll be working mostly remotely, from the Netherlands, where he’s based, but didn’t say … Continue reading

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Direct ocean capture may be the next frontier for carbon removal

Amsterdam-based Brineworks, a company specializing in seawater electrolysis technology, says its innovative method is expected to cost under $100 per ton of CO2 at scale. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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